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To hear Mitt Romney tell it — at least in his ads — welfare reform was largely a Bill Clinton initiative, accomplished with the assistance of a bipartisan Congress.

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There’s someone missing in Romney’s telling of the welfare reform story, and that is the man most responsible for turning the most successful policy initiative in a generation into law: Newt Gingrich. As a lawmaker, prime mover of the Contract With America, and Speaker of the House, Gingrich pushed a reluctant Bill Clinton into signing the reform bill. Clinton did it kicking and screaming.